Question

1. hermann ebbinghaus use of nonsense syllables to study memory led to the discovery that

a) what is learned in one mood is most easily retrieved in that same mood.
b) our sensory memory capacity is essentially unlimited.
c) the amount remembered depends on the time spent learning.
d) hypnosis can increase recall of meaningless information.
e) information that is automatically processed is rarely forgotten.

1. the sudden comprehension of the double meaning of a humorous pun best illustrates

a) belief perseverance.
b) the availability heuristic.
c) insight.
d) the representativeness heuristic.
e) the framing effect.

1. compared with formerly depressed people, those who are currently depressed are more likely to recall their parents as rejecting and punitive. this best illustrates

a) source amnesia.
b) mood - congruent memory.
c) the misinformation effect.
d) retroactive interference.
e) the self - reference effect.

1. trying to see a hidden representational image in a piece of abstract art by looking carefully at each element in the picture and trying to form an image employs which kind of perceptual process?

a) perceptual adaptation
b) retinal disparity
c) bottom - up processing
d) interposition
e) selective attention

1. after his last drinking spree, fakim hid a half - empty liquor bottle. he couldnt remember where he hid it until he started drinking again. fakims pattern of recall illustrates

a) motivated forgetting.
b) the serial position effect.
c) the spacing effect.
d) state - dependent memory.
e) proactive interference.

Explanation:

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The question is about Hermann Ebbinghaus's research on memory with nonsense syllables. The key is to identify the correct finding. Ebbinghaus's work showed that the amount remembered depends on the time spent learning (the forgetting curve relates time and retention). Option C matches this. Option A is mood - congruent memory (not Ebbinghaus's focus), B is about sensory memory (not his area), D is about hypnosis (not related), E is about automatic processing (not his finding).

The situation is the sudden comprehension of a pun's double meaning. Insight is the sudden realization of a solution or meaning, which fits here. Belief perseverance is holding onto beliefs, availability heuristic is judging by ease of recall, representativeness heuristic is judging by similarity, and framing effect is about how information is presented. So option C (insight) is correct.

Currently depressed people recalling parents as rejecting is about mood - congruent memory, where memory retrieval is influenced by current mood. Source amnesia is forgetting the source, misinformation effect is about false memories from misinformation, retroactive interference is new information interfering with old, and self - reference effect is relating to self. So option B (mood - congruent memory) is correct.

Answer:

C. the amount remembered depends on the time spent learning.

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